Seymour Hersh Quotes

I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.

I'm a freelance person, and I've always been able to support myself.

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

I want to be doing something where I'm running my own show.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

I work when, and where I want to.

Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

The self-owned and -operated business is the freest life in the world.

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

It's hard for me to work for somebody else. I can work with someone, but not for someone.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

To me, success was not having to have a boss and not having a day job. I've been living my own version of success since the early '90s when I first got signed. I haven't had a job since then.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don't have a boss. I'm like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person - me.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it.

I had difficulty working for other people.